Tapestry - Carole King
What's going on - Marvin Gaye
Songs in the key of life - Stevie Wonder
Bridge over troubled water - Simon and Garfunkel
Rubber soul - The Beatles

Welcome to Wherever You Are - INXS
The Crossing - Big Country
The Hounds if Love - Kate Bush
Clutching at Straws - Marillion
Parallel Lines - Blondie

Crime of the Century.....Super tramp.Gone to Earth. Barclay James Harvest.Yes...Going for the One.Breakfast in America...Supertramp. Tubular Bells...Mike oldfield.they don't make Album covers Like Em anymore.

Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones
Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
Tellin Stories - Charlatans
Stanley Road - Paul Weller

A different mood, a different 5 tomorrow.

Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen
Dusty in Memphis - Dusty Springfield
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Sign o the Times - Prince.

The Cure - Disintegration
New Order - Substance
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Pearl Jam - Ten
The Pixies - Doolittle

Rattus Norvegicus : Stranglers
Ocean Rain : Echo
Head on the Door : Cure
Murmur : REM
Lyre of Orpheus : Cave
Psychocandy : JAMC
Forever Now : Furs
Marquee Moon : Television
Queen is Dead : Smiths
Little Black Numbers : Kathryn Williams
A Kind of Blue : Miles

Claret-On-A-T-Rex wrote:The Cure - Disintegration
New Order - Substance
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Pearl Jam - Ten
The Pixies - Doolittle

Can't argue with those!

tim_noone wrote:Crime of the Century.....Super tramp.Gone to Earth. Barclay James Harvest.Yes...Going for the One.Breakfast in America...Supertramp. Tubular Bells...Mike oldfield.they don't make Album covers Like Em anymore.

Excellent choices Tim

Lou Reed - Transformer
Bowie - Hunky Dory
Elvis Costello - My aim is true
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon
Steely Dan - can’t buy a thrill

All bought as a teenager 40 plus years ago and still enjoyed today.

L A Woman - Doors

Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago

Hunky Dory - David Bowie

Abraxas - Santana

Fire and Water - Free

Deep Purple in Rock - Deep Purple

Mr Fantasy - Traffic

Led Zepplin II - Led Zepplin

Pet Sounds - Beach Boys

No prizes for guessing my age or the era in which my musical tastes were honed!!

Never mind the Bollockss Sex Pistols
Next The Sensational Alex Harvey band
New boots and Panties by Ian Drury.
A day at the Races Queen
Hunky Dory
The Human Menagerie Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Moontan Golden Earring

....soundtrack to a misspent youth .....nothing else comes close.

Hotel California – The Eagles
Back in Black – AC/DC

The Velvet Underground -The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Beatles - Revolver
The Smiths - The Smiths
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Strokes - Is This It

Not an all time classic in the wider sense but an album I think was ahead of its time and really underated

The Happy Mondays - Bummed

T.Rex - Electric Warrior
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
David Bowie - "Heroes"
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out

As said earlier, will probably change tomorrow!

Bruce..Born To Run. 8 tracks and every one timeless and brilliant.
Chicago.. Chicago Transit Authority
Led Zep..2
Queen..A Night At The Opera
Meat Loaf.. Bat Out Of Hell

Bowie : Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust
Roxy Music : Flesh and Blood
Human League : Dare
New Order : Technique
Bowie - Hunky Dory
Bowie : Aladdin Sane
Bowie : Young Americans

Basically I could just list loads of Bowie LPs !

Bankrupt - Dr Hook and the Medicine Show

Kick Inside - Kate Bush
52nd Street - Billy Joel
This is the Sea - Waterboys
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Parallel Lines - Blondie
Off the Wall - Michael Jackson

Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Hejira - Joni Mitchell
Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne
Can’t buy a thrill - Steely Dan
Lamb lies down on Broadway - Genesis

Small faces...Ogden
Bowie...Ziggy
Rumours.
Clapton..461 ocean boulevard
Beatles..Abbey road.


A few folk above not differentiating between "a good album that I like", and "classic album"

My three because of how all the songs work together

Sleeper - The It girl (fave song: Nice guy eddie)
Neil Young - After the Goldrush (fave song: Southern Man)
Lauryn Hill - Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (fave song: Dat thing)

Rumours fits the bill too.

Devils_Advocate wrote:The Velvet Underground -The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Beatles - Revolver
The Smiths - The Smiths
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Strokes - Is This It

Not an all time classic in the wider sense but an album I think was ahead of its time and really underated

The Happy Mondays - Bummed

Nice to The Strokes on this thread. Probably my favourite ever record.

I never really listened to whole albums, just tracks off them There are very few records I can play the whole way through without skipping tracks. These are some of the few:

Free - Fire & Water
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Richard Shindell - Vuelta
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside

However the most influential albums for me are the ones that lead to defining my personal tastes. They would be:

Matthews Southern Comfort - Later That Same Year

Well actually it was the song Woodstock which is now placed on that album but in the UK it was only a single. It was the major influence in my choices leading to Fairport Convention, Rick Nelson, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and a host of other singer song writers, harmony singing, pedal steel guitar.

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Barclay James Harvest - Once Again

This contained their statement song Mockingbird. This led to prog rock - Pink Floyd, Wally, Rare Bird and a bit more.

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I also have made a small foray into classical music which started with this tune from this album:

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It now encompasses Vaughan Williams, Samuel Barber, Thomas Tallis, Greig and a few more.

Dylan - Highway 61
Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
The Strokes - Is This It
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Temptations Greatest Hits
Are You Experienced
The Sound of Music
Rumours
Elgins Darling Baby
Bridge over Troubled Water

Aquarium by Aqua
Best of The Tweets by The Tweets
Best ever party album by Black Lace



Sorry couldn't resist

Tapestry - Carole King
GP - Gram Parsons
From Elvis in Memphis - Elvis Presley
Darkness on the edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen
The Pretender - Jackson Browne

Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Pink Floyd - Animals
Steeleye Span - Parcel of Rogues
Jeff Wayne's - War of the Worlds
Genesis - Foxtrot

This is hard but I’d include

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
David Bowie - The rise & fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Carole King - Tapestry
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street

Someone mentioned Barclay James Harvest so a vote for their Once Again album

So Far Away - The Chords
All Mod Cons - The Jam
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Never mind - Nivana
Get Smart - Squire
The Specials - The Specials
One Step Beyond - Madness
Kinda Kinks - The Kinks
Ogdens Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces
Actions Speak Louder - The Action

morpheus2 wrote:Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Pink Floyd - Animals
Steeleye Span - Parcel of Rogues
Jeff Wayne's - War of the Worlds
Genesis - Foxtrot

Great shout ....are you 63 years old?

Steve1956 wrote:Great shout ....are you 63 years old?

Haha, sometimes feel like I am..

Songs for Swinging Lovers - Frank Sinatra
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
Sargent Pepper - The Beatles (plus all their other albums to be honest)
Bridge over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
Out of the Blue and Time - ELO
Bringing it all back Home - Bob Dylan

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek and the Dominoes
The Yes Album - Yes
Liege & Lief - Fairport Convention
Waiting for Columbus - Little Feat
Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix

Motown Chartbusters Vol 3

We definitely need some younger recruits to this board!

Paul Weller - Paul Weller
Stanley Road - Paul Weller
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
Revolver - The Beatles
Joshua Tree - U2
Stone Roses- Stone Roses
The Gift - The Jam
What's The Story - Oasis

COBBLE wrote:We definitely need some younger recruits to this board!

I thought it was attracting us oldies because of the phrase “LPs”...I automatically think vinyl records and my older collection.
If it was modern stuff I’d have a few other ones in there.

The Term Classic LP implies Vinyl for sure.....

Automatic for the People REM.

Infidels. Bob Dylan
Nobody’s heroes. SLF
Rumours. Fleetwood Mac
Full moon fever. Tom Petty
Tunnel of love. Bruce

They change daily, but I think Rumours will ALWAYS remain on the list, like Billy Hamilton and Peter Noble will always remain on my list of claret heroes.

I suppose the all time classic LP has got to be "South Pacific" ( soundtrack from the film) which was Christmas No. 1. Album in 1958, 59 and 60', and spent, I think, 135 weeks at the top of the LP charts. Now that takes some doing.

Vino blanco wrote:I suppose the all time classic LP has got to be "South Pacific" ( soundtrack from the film) which was Christmas No. 1. Album in 1958, 59 and 60', and spent, I think, 135 weeks at the top of the LP charts. Now that takes some doing.

OK these arent weeks at number one but weeks in the chart.....
Title............... ................Artist........... Weeks
Greatest Hits ...... Queen............ 1103*
Gold: Greatest Hits...... ABBA............ 885*
Legend Bob Marley and the Wailers 871*

I've just googled it, South Pacific was at the top of the LP charts for a record 115 weeks.

Vino blanco wrote:I suppose the all time classic LP has got to be "South Pacific" ( soundtrack from the film) which was Christmas No. 1. Album in 1958, 59 and 60', and spent, I think, 135 weeks at the top of the LP charts. Now that takes some doing.

My mum would have been so pleased to see this LO being included. Was always her favourite film.

Wow guys, such a selection of brilliant music from years past. Ones taste in music changes over the decades, however the titles below still provide me a great deal of listening pleasure.


“How long has this been going on” – Van Morrison, with Georgie Fame and friends.

“MTV Unplugged” – Tony Bennet.

“The Main Event” – Frank Sinatra.

“Nostalgia” – Annie Lennox

“Aja” – Steely Dan.

“Sheffield Steel” – Joe Cocker.

“Heads and Tales” - Harry Chapin.

The man who- Travis
Out of time-R.E.M.
God shuffled his feet- Crash Test Dummies
Misplaced Childhood- Marillion
Take off and landing-Elbow

Graceland - Paul Simon

Wishbone Ash - Argus
Dylan - Street Legal / Blonde on Blonde
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Bruce - Born to Run
Bruce Hornsby and The Range - The Way it is.

As others suggest tomorrow this could be totally different - but Argus would still be there.